Override SHIFT + Backspace

Xavier Claessens xclaesse at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 01:06:46 PDT 2006


On ven, 2006-07-14 at 17:00 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:29:20 +1000 Daniel Kasak <dkasak at nusconsulting.com.au>
> babbled:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I've killed my X session probably 10 times today by accidentally hitting
> > SHIFT + Backspace. I've been typing lots of stuff in capitals, and for
> > some reason I can't bring myself to let go of the shift key before
> > hitting backspace if I make a mistake. I've been swearing loudly
> > afterwards, but alas this doesn't bring my work back :) Is there some
> > way to override this key combo?
> 
> ummm the key combo to kill x is ctrl+alt+backspace... 


You can disable the by adding to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerFlags"
         Option "DontZap"  "true"
EndSection

At least it disable ctr-alt-backspace.


Xavier Claessens.




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